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  • X Marks the Spot: It’s Time for Social Media Platform Sovereignty

    Source: Garrison Center
    by Thomas L Knapp

    “States in general, and the EU in particular, have a lot in common with the users of social media platforms: Both want to decide how those platforms get used. States in general, and the EU in particular, also have a lot in common with the owners of social media platforms: Both want to make money on those platforms. Those commonalities make for an alliance of convenience between users and owners versus states. Owners make their money by pleasing users; states make their money by demanding bribes … er, ‘fines’ … from owners, often as punishment for refusing to cooperate in state censorship of user-created content. … So why doesn’t [Elon Musk] start his own country, with a state fashioned after his own liking, base his social media platform there, do business exclusively there, and tell the other states to go pound sand when they demand control and/or a piece of the financial action?” (12/09/25)

    https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/20195

  • The National-Security Establishment’s Message to Americans

    Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
    by Jacob G Hornberger

    “It’s easy to assume that with its drug-war killings in the Caribbean, the Pentagon is sending a message only to Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro: ‘We can kill your citizens with impunity and there is nothing that you or anyone else can do about it.’ In actuality, however, the Pentagon is sending the same message to the American people: ‘We can kill anyone we want, including American citizens, and there is nothing that you or anyone else can do about it.'” (12/09/25)

    https://www.fff.org/2025/12/09/the-national-security-establishments-message-to-americans/

  • The Crude Imperialism of the “Trump Corollary”

    Source: Eunomia
    by Daniel Larison

    “The Trump administration released its National Security Strategy (NSS) last week. There is limited value in trying to make sense of Trump’s foreign policy by looking at strategy documents when the president largely just makes things up as he goes and often makes policy decisions for arbitrary and irrational reasons. The only real value that the NSS has this year is that it tells us how the administration is justifying the president’s ad hoc interventions around the world. For the Western Hemisphere, this means dressing up the president’s militarism and meddling as the ‘Trump Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine.'” (12/09/25)

    https://daniellarison.substack.com/p/the-crude-imperialism-of-the-trump

  • Nationalism Is Driving the Neo Right’s Virulent Antisemitic Turn

    Source: The UnPopulist
    by Ilya Somin

    “Nationalism doesn’t just historically correlate with bigotry — it consistently drives antisemitism and other racial and ethnic prejudices. Indeed, nationalism intensifies preexisting antisemitic impulses. To the degree that today’s conservatives decide to embrace — or even just make peace with — nationalism and dispense with the universalist liberal principles of the American Founding, they will find it difficult to impossible to stem the spread of antisemitism in their midst.” (12/09/25)

    https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/nationalism-is-driving-the-neo-rights

  • Why Congress must rein in the modern presidency

    Source: Orange County Register
    by Mimi Robson

    “If there is one theme that has shaped recent American politics, it is the steady concentration of power in the presidency. Congress — under both parties — has repeatedly delegated authority that was never meant to rest in a single office. The consequences are now impossible to ignore. The actions of President Donald Trump reveal how fragile our liberties become when one person holds too much power.” (12/08/25)

    https://archive.is/8XRlG

  • Defending women’s worth and well-being

    Source: Christian Science Monitor
    by staff

    “Over the weekend, tens of thousands of Brazilian women participated in rallies calling for stronger action to tackle violence against women, which remains intolerably high. A few weeks earlier, several thousand South African women participated in ‘lie-downs’ across the country to call attention to the same issue. ‘Just as women many years ago protested … for the changes that we are privileged to experience today,’ said a South African participant in her 20s, ‘we also need to be the generation that steps up.’ Coinciding with the global ’16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence’ campaign, these events underscore how much remains to be done to uphold the safety and dignity of women and girls the world over. As well as laws and enforcement, the process requires confronting deep-rooted traditions and cultural notions that constrain the full participation and vigorous contributions of half the world’s population.” (12/08/25)

    https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2025/1208/Defending-women-s-worth-and-well-being

  • The Real Cost of Trump’s $12 Billion Farm Aid

    Source: Karl Dickey’s Freedom Vanguard
    by Karl Dickey

    “Via the USDA, President Trump has announced a fresh $12 billion aid package for farmers, with $11 billion earmarked specifically for crop producers of corn, soybeans, and wheat. The administration says this is a ‘bridge’ to help farmers survive low prices and trade disputes. The money, they claim, comes directly from tariff revenues. Payments are set to arrive early next year, provided farmers file their respective paperwork by December 19. Supporters are cheering this as ‘putting American agriculture first.’ But let’s get real. In plain English: the government is breaking farmers’ legs with tariffs and then handing them crutches paid for by you, the consumer. … Who actually gets this money? You might picture a struggling family with a small red barn. The actual data says otherwise. According to the Cato Institute, farm subsidies overwhelmingly benefit large, wealthy agribusinesses.” (12/09/25)

    https://palmbeachexaminer.substack.com/p/the-real-cost-of-trumps-12-billion

  • Ditch the Subsidies, Grow What Actually Works

    Source: Brownstone Institute
    by Joel Salatin

    “Failing to bear the costs and consequences of bad decisions is as perverse as failing to incentivize the costs and consequences of good decisions. This seems elementary enough to not even mention, but we often create public policy that seems to deny this fundamental axiom. A case in point is federal government safety nets. Often begun with every good intention, they frequently break down after years of implementation. Government programs tend to grow more bureaucratic, becoming more interested in expanding power and budgets than in solving the problem they were chartered to solve.” (12/09/25)

    https://brownstone.org/articles/ditch-the-subsidies-grow-what-actually-works/

  • No Ducking and Covering for Us

    Source: TomDispatch
    by Tom Engelhardt

    “Only recently, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP30, met in Brazil for two weeks. While 194 countries were represented there, the historically greatest fossil-fuelizer on the planet, Donald Trump’s United States, was, of course, missing in action (for the first time in 30 years). Worse yet, while the conference was underway, the Trump administration announced a new plan to open 1.3 billion acres (no, that is not a misprint!) of coastal waters to new oil and gas drilling. As for the conference itself, after floundering and almost foundering, its member nations barely agreed on a way more or less forward, what were termed ‘baby steps’ toward a better (or at least less utterly disastrous) future. And yet, can you believe this? The final agreement didn’t even include the words ‘fossil fuels’ or reaffirm in blunt language that they should be phased out! (President Trump must have been pleased!)” (12/09/25)

    https://tomdispatch.com/climate-change-summer-or-nuclear-winter-2/

  • Whig, Tory, and the Modern World

    Source: Law & Liberty
    by Helen Dale

    “If you’re as old as I am (and live in the UK), you’ve likely read Our Island Story and its affectionate parody, 1066 and All That. You’ll know that Cavaliers were Wrong but Wromantic while Roundheads were Right but Repulsive. Oliver Cromwell had Charles I’s head chopped off, you see, and regicide is bad. Cromwell was, however, a great parliamentarian, and for that reason, memorable. Historian George Owers — without naming either earlier work — takes the substance of these amusing observations and runs with them in The Rage of Party: How Whig Versus Tory Made Modern Britain, an account of the emergence of modern party politics during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. His personal sympathies are with the Tories (wrong but wromantic), but he is a fair and scrupulous scholar.” (12/09/25)

    https://lawliberty.org/book-review/whig-tory-and-the-modern-world/

  • Trump Is Cleaning Up Biden’s Affordability Disaster

    Source: New York Sun
    by Larry Kudlow

    “It may well be that there’s an affordability crisis and consumers have no confidence in America or President Trump. Yet sometimes facts speak louder than political conjectures or biased polls. Black Friday spending surged this year to new highs, fueled by record breaking online spending that reached $11.8 billion on Black Friday alone, according to Market Data. Online sales on Black Friday made up about 10 percent of total sales for the entire month of November. The number was just above $111 billion, according to an Adobe Analytics report. Adobe tracks over $1 trillion U.S. retail site visits. And they are predicting that the 2025 holiday season will be the biggest online spending in American history.” (12/09/25)

    https://www.nysun.com/article/affordability-bidens-disaster-and-trumps-cleanup

  • Denying the Affordability Crisis Won’t Change the Data

    Source: The Daily Economy
    by Peter C Earle

    “American households are hurting. With wage growth lagging and inflation compounding, no amount of bluster can mask the math.” (12/09/25)

    https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/denying-the-affordability-crisis-wont-change-the-data/

  • The Hegseth Killings Must Stop

    Source: Antiwar.com
    by Ron Paul

    “Last week the Pentagon, under ‘War Secretary’ Pete Hegseth, carried out yet another military attack on a boat in the high seas that the Administration claims is smuggling drugs. That makes 23 boats blown up by the US military in the waters off Latin America – most near Venezuela – and nearly 100 persons killed. To date the US government has provided no evidence to back up its claim that these boats are smuggling fentanyl and other dangerous drugs into the United States. The US Drug Enforcement Administration has reported that Venezuela neither manufactures nor transports fentanyl to the US. In fact, the DEA still concludes that Venezuela is barely a minor player in the drug game. Is this really about drugs? Or is it about ‘regime change’ for Venezuela?” (12/09/25)

    https://original.antiwar.com/paul/2025/12/08/the-hegseth-killings-must-stop

  • Inside the Battle to Abolish Birthright Citizenship

    Source: Persuasion
    by Damon Linker

    “Even if the Supreme Court overturns Trump’s executive order, he may eventually get what he wants.” (12/09/25)

    https://www.persuasion.community/p/inside-the-battle-to-abolish-birthright

  • How To Heal When The World Is On Fire

    Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
    by Caitlin Johnstone

    “I think first we need to be clear that healing and feeling secure are two different things. Healing isn’t about getting away from uncomfortable feelings, it’s about moving right into them and feeling them fully. After we have done our work and healing has occurred we tend to notice that we feel better, but the actual work of healing begins in discomfort. That’s where the rubber meets the road on this path. Healing is when you find a part of yourself that has been acting out unconsciously over and over again throughout your life, by getting annoyed or upset or collapsing into helplessness, or by freezing up, freezing out, or freaking out. You start paying attention to how these unconscious behaviors play in yourself (either in your outward behavior or privately in your internal suffering), and you get real curious about how that is happening.” (12/09/25)

    https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/12/09/how-to-heal-when-the-world-is-on-fire/

  • Sovereignty For Me, None For Thee

    Source: Liberal Currents
    by Joseph Stieb

    “Donald Trump’s 2025 National Security Strategy reveals a radical blood-and-soil conception of national strategy based on maintaining white patriarchal Christian domination at home and abroad.” (12/09/25)

    https://www.liberalcurrents.com/sovereignty-for-me-none-for-thee/

  • The “double-tap” is not the issue; it’s the whole war

    Source: The Hill

    “The Pentagon’s own manual on the laws of war describes a scenario similar to the Sept. 2 boat-strike in discussing when service members should refuse to comply with unlawful orders. ‘For example,’ says Section 7.3 of the manual, ‘orders to fire upon the shipwrecked would be clearly illegal.’ But I would argue that all the focus on the ‘double-tap’ is misguided. The real issue, the issue we should be focusing on, is not one illegal double-strike on Sept. 2. The issue is Trump’s whole illegal war. As of this writing, the U.S. military has bombed 23 small boats allegedly transporting illegal drugs off the coast of Venezuela, killing 87 people. And yet to date, the administration has not provided one iota of proof that the boats were actually carrying illegal drugs. Even if they were, those boats posed no national security threat to the U.S.” (12/09/25)

    https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/5639880-double-tap-caribbean-bombing/

  • Promoting free or even paid-for landfill use

    Source: Adam Smith Institute
    by Madsen Pirie

    “There are economic, environmental, and practical arguments for making landfill disposal free or even subsidized, rather than charging tipping fees. The major case for free or subsidized landfill disposal is that it reduces Illegal dumping. Charging per ton or per bag creates an incentive for some households and businesses to illegally dump waste to avoid fees. And illegal dumping cleanup is expensive for municipalities, because cleanup costs sometimes exceed the revenue from tipping fees. Eliminating fees would remove the incentive to dump in streets, rivers, or abandoned lots. Free disposal would lead to fewer external cleanup costs. Furthermore, it would encourage proper waste management by small businesses. Many small contractors, such as roofers, landscapers, carpenters face tight margins, and tipping fees can encourage burning waste onsite, causing air pollution, dumping in forests or fields.” (12/09/25)

    https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/promoting-free-or-even-paid-for-landfill-use

  • The Main Beneficiaries of Trump’s Pardons? White-Collar Criminals Like Him

    Source: Washington Monthly
    by Bill Scher

    “Trump’s clemency record should be viewed alongside his deregulatory agenda, putting global markets at risk.” (12/09/25)

    https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/09/trump-pardons-white-collar-crime-deregulation/

  • Looking for Work

    Source: Common Sense
    by Paul Jacob

    “‘Social sector’ workers — described by Forbes as ‘nonprofit organizations and the social sector at-large’ — have been losing jobs because of budget cuts and corruption cuts. Many newly unemployed are unhappy about having to job-hunt. Some complain about having to take jobs from profit-making businesses. Others lament sparse communication from prospective employers. … Job seekers might feel less demoralized if they didn’t take the impersonal aspects of the search so personally.” (12/09/25)

    https://thisiscommonsense.org/2025/12/09/looking4work/

  • Trump’s “Monroe Doctrine 2.0” completely misreads Latin America

    Source: Responsible Statecraft
    by Jorge Heine

    “The president’s new hemispheric strategy revives interventionist logic while ignoring the region’s urgent need for infrastructure and economic diversification.” (12/09/25)

    https://responsiblestatecraft.org/trump-corollory/

  • How Trump Can Help Accelerate Argentina’s Economic Comeback

    Source: Town Hall
    by Stephen Moore

    “President Donald Trump and Argentine President Javier Milei have a special relationship. Each is engaged in a crusade to make his respective country’s economy great again. Trump was all in on helping Milei win his elections earlier this year, and he has also offered the Argentines a $20 billion ‘lifeline’ as they adjust to the bumpy path to needed free-market reforms. The stakes are gigantic because the whole world is watching Milei’s embrace of free-market ‘shock capitalism,’ which so far is working. He has restored sound money (by linking to the dollar) and taken a chainsaw to the bloated state bureaucracy as he privatizes rather than nationalizes government assets. Argentina’s tragic detour into the dead end of socialism drove the nation into a half-century-long economic ditch, with poverty rates skyrocketing.” (12/09/25)

    https://townhall.com/columnists/stephenmoore/2025/12/09/how-trump-can-help-accelerate-argentinas-economic-comeback-n2667571

  • Uncle Sam, Shareholder

    Source: The Dispatch
    by Tad DeHaven

    “The first Trump administration ushered in a new era of industrial policy, attempting to reshape the macroeconomic landscape through the use of tariffs. The Biden administration built upon its predecessor’s interventions, championing massive subsidies for the semiconductor and green energy industries. In his second term, Trump has raised the tariff ante and taken an alarming step further by directly inserting the federal government into the corporate boardroom. Over the past six months, the administration has unilaterally engineered a series of deals that give the federal government ownership stakes in a portfolio of private companies. It’s a seismic and disturbing development in federal policymaking — and it’s not done. Congressional Republicans, who would be foaming at the mouth were this occurring under a Democratic administration, have thus far chosen to sit on their hands.” (12/09/25)

    https://thedispatch.com/article/trump-administration-equity-stakes-corporation-downsides/

  • “Democratic Socialism”: Yet Another Remake

    Source: Foundation for Economic Education
    by Julieta Clara

    “I’m from Argentina, and when I hear New York’s new mayor speak about ‘democratic socialism’ as a path to ‘social justice,’ I feel like someone who has already watched the entire movie: the prequel, the sequel, the reboot, and even the director’s cut. Different actors, different scripts, different settings — but always the same finale.” (12/09/25)

    https://fee.org/articles/democratic-socialism-yet-another-remake/

  • Why Gun Groups Oppose Transgender Gun Bans

    Source: Reason
    by Jacob Sullum

    “Multiple news outlets reported in September 2025 that the Justice Department was weighing a ban on gun possession by transgender people, on the theory that they are ‘mentally ill’ and therefore ‘unstable.’ That constitutionally dubious proposal provoked objections from gun rights groups that typically align with the Trump administration, including the National Rifle
Association (NRA). … the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit held that ‘nothing in our tradition allows disarmament simply because [someone] belongs to a category of people’ that ‘Congress has categorically deemed dangerous.’ Such a ban would be even more constitutionally questionable if it were imposed by bureaucratic fiat.” (for publication 01/26)

    https://reason.com/2025/12/09/gun-groups-oppose-trans-firearm-ban/

  • Trump Gives the Country an Economics Lesson on Tariffs

    Source: CounterPunch
    by Dean Baker

    “Trump first announced his massive tariffs on ‘Liberation Day,’ which was April 2. This was supposed to be the beginning of the United States rebuilding its manufacturing capacity. Since Liberation Day, the economy has lost 60,000 manufacturing jobs, factory construction is down at least 5 percent, and inflation has risen to 3.0 percent. It is also clear that businesses and consumers here have paid Trump’s tariffs, not foreigners as Trump seems to believe. Import prices have risen since Liberation Day. These are the price of the goods we import before Trump imposes his tariffs. If exporters are eating the tariffs, then the import price index should have fallen considerably. The data show this is not true. That is all pretty much textbook on what to expect from a set of ill-considered tariffs designed by a president who knows next to nothing about economics.” (12/09/25)

    https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/12/09/trump-gives-the-country-an-economics-lesson-on-tariffs/

  • Banning social media for teens is an infantile idea

    Source: spiked
    by Hugo Timms

    “While few people really think scrolling through social media is the best use of kids’ time, there are good reasons why the Labor government’s plan should and will almost certainly fail. First of all, Labor does not seem to be remotely confident in its own ability to enforce it. … A second, and more significant, problem for the Australian government is that parents are far from unified in support of the ban. In fact, some polls suggest that more than 50 per cent oppose it. Probably this is because they do not want the government telling them how to raise their children. … It won’t be bad news if the Australian government does fail, something it does most of the time, anyway. Not least because the social-media ban, while couched in terms of compassion, is part of a broader push for internet censorship, not just for children, but for adults, too.” (12/09/25)

    https://archive.is/1f4V9

  • Does a growing economy require increase in money supply?

    Source: Cobden Centre
    by Dr. Frank Shostak

    “It is held by a popular thinking that a growing economy requires a growing money supply in order to provide support to economic growth. The idea that the money supply must grow in order to support the growth rate of an economy gives the impression that money is the means of sustenance that sustains economic activity. However, money’s main function is to fulfill the role of the medium of exchange. Money does not sustain economic activity. The means of sustenance are provided by the saved consumer goods.” (12/09/25)

    https://www.cobdencentre.org/2025/12/does-a-growing-economy-require-increase-in-money-supply/

  • How Corporate Democrats Made Trump Possible: A 10-Year Timeline

    Source: Common Dreams
    by Norman Solomon

    “Ten years after Donald Trump first ran for president, he stands at the helm of Titanic America. How did this happen? No factors were more pivotal than the outlooks and actions of the Democratic Party leadership. Scrutinizing them now is vital not only for clarity about the past. It also makes possible a clear focus on ways to prevent further catastrophe. Here’s the actual history that corporate Democrats pretend didn’t happen: 2016: Hillary Clinton offers more of the status quo. Her allies in the Democratic Party pull out all the stops so she can win the party’s presidential nomination. With a big assist from the Democratic National Committee, she prevails over the strong primary challenge from Bernie Sanders, but her campaign trail goes downhill from there.” (12/09/25)

    https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/corporate-democrats-made-trump-possible-timeline

  • The Importance of Questioning the Egalitarian Premise

    Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
    by Wanjiru Njoya

    “One of the most basic threats to liberty, which is often overlooked, is that the defense of individual liberty as an ideal is seldom heard in political debate. The ideal of liberty is often overshadowed by quotidian political concerns that follow the latest outrage. In public debates on policies designed to advance social justice goals, the disputants generally argue about the effectiveness of the policies without questioning the underlying ideological premise or its implications for liberty. Most critiques attempt to show that for one reason or another the policy will not work as intended, or that the costs of the policy outweigh any benefits. They focus on problems of scope and implementation. This is why both sides of the political divide are often referred to as a ‘uniparty’ –two sides of the same coin that merely debate the speed at which government policies should unfold.” (12/09/25)

    https://mises.org/mises-wire/importance-questioning-egalitarian-premise

  • With preapproved building plans local, state, and federal policymakers take aim at soft costs

    Source: Niskanen Center
    by Andrew Justus

    “Despite unsteady economic winds, housing remains unaffordable in many parts of the country, with high soft costs — expenses for planning, zoning approvals, and engineering — bearing much of the blame. Recent efforts in Michigan and Ohio, however, aim to reduce these costs through statewide catalogs of preapproved building plans for homes and small multifamily buildings. These follow locally led efforts in places like South Bend, Indiana, and Kalamazoo, Michigan, which built out their own catalogs of preapproved residential buildings, enabling a growing number of homes built to be open to source specifications. Are these statewide plan catalogs the right approach to affordability? And is there a helpful federal role in all this?” (12/09/25)

    https://www.niskanencenter.org/with-preapproved-building-plans-local-state-and-federal-policymakers-take-aim-at-soft-costs/

  • Congress Must Invoke War Powers Act to Stop War with Venezuela

    Source: The American Conservative
    by Abdelhalim Abdelrahman

    “Current Venezuela discourse within the Trump administration is eerily reminiscent of the run-up to the Iraq war. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, and Fox News are beating the drums of war, perpetuating falsehoods that grossly exaggerate Venezuela’s threat to the U.S. Over the last few weeks, inaccurate claims that Caracas bears responsibility for America’s fentanyl crisis, supplies Hamas with uranium, or directly conspires against America with Iran and Hezbollah have become the new ‘Saddam has WMDs’ deception to justify a sham war and regime change in Venezuela. … If Congress does not immediately assert its rightful authority, under the 1973 War Powers Resolution, to stop the escalating intervention, then the United States risks following the same dark path that laid the groundwork for the horrific invasion of Iraq.” (12/09/25)

    https://www.theamericanconservative.com/congress-must-invoke-war-powers-act-to-stop-war-with-venezuela/

  • When push comes to shove …

    Source: The Price of Liberty
    by Nathan Barton

    “Peace is preferable. In Europe, new drums are beating, joining those drums of war already present in Eastern Europe. The Russo-Ukrainian War drags on, despite efforts by The Donald and a few others to negotiate at least a longer-lasting ceasefire. To believe the news stories on mainstream media sources, both Russia and Ukraine are bleeding themselves dry. According to many (whom we once viewed as rational, neutral, and observant commentators), Russia has failed, is doomed, and Putin and his entire regime are toast. … Of course, it just might be that once again the MSM (and various and sundry governments) are lying to their audience, figuring they have cozened the public. Again. Such fun! Such profits!” (12/08/25)

    https://thepriceofliberty.org/2025/12/08/when-push-comes-to-shove/

  • Overseas Visitors Love Our Parks. Now Our Parks Love Overseas Visitors.

    Source: Property and Environment Research Center
    by staff

    “Starting January 1, 2026, overseas visitors who pull up to the gates of 11 of the most popular U.S. national parks (including destinations like Yellowstone, Yosemite, and the Grand Canyon) will pay a $100 surcharge on top of the base entrance fee. The price of non-resident ‘America the Beautiful’ annual passes will also rise, to $250, while remaining $80 for Americans. The policy change is fantastic news for anyone who cares about national parks, including visitors from abroad. For years, PERC has argued that higher fees for non-resident visitors are one of the smartest, fairest ways to protect America’s best idea at a time when our most famous parks are straining under record crowds and aging infrastructure.” (12/08/25)

    https://www.perc.org/2025/12/08/overseas-visitors-love-our-parks-now-our-parks-love-overseas-visitors/

  • There’s An AI Bubble. For Real.

    Source: Persuasion
    by Jerry Kaplan

    “It’s a great party. But as the music gets louder, the lights dimmer, and the drinks stronger, you already know how it ends: a miserable day in bed nursing an epic hangover. So why not one more margarita before calling that Uber? Welcome to the AI Bubble. All the warning signs are there, and the aftermath is equally predictable. But with your portfolio brushing the stratosphere, why not spike it with a little margin? You may think your ETF is diversified, but with more than half of the S&P 500’s gains for 2025 coming from the so-called ‘Magnificent Seven’ AI-exposed stocks, you’ve already doubled down on one massive bet—that the new wave of Generative AI will soon drive exponential earnings growth far into the future.” (12/08/25)

    https://www.persuasion.community/p/theres-an-ai-bubble-for-real